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# Zenity dialogs for Golang, Windows and macOS
[](https://godoc.org/github.com/ncruces/zenity)
This repo includes both a cross-platform Go package providing [Zenity ](https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/ )-like dialogs,
as well as a *“port”* of the `zenity` command to both Windows and macOS based on that library.
**This is a work in progress.**
Lots of things are missing.
For now, these are the only implemented dialogs:
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* [message ](https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/wiki/Message-dialog ) (error, info, question, warning)
* [file selection ](https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/wiki/File-Selection-dialog )
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Behavior on Windows, macOS and other UNIXes might differ slightly.
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Some of that is intended (reflecting platform differences),
other bits are unfortunate limitations,
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others still are open to be fixed.
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## Why?
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There are a bunch of other dialog packages for Go.\
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Why reinvent this particular wheel?
#### Requirements:
* no `cgo` (see [benefits ](https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go ), mostly cross-compilation)
* no main loop (or other threading requirements)
* no initialization
* on Windows:
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* no additional dependencies
* Explorer shell not required
* works in Server Core
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* Unicode support
* on macOS:
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* only dependency is `osascript` (with [JXA ](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/Articles/Introduction.html ))\
JavaScript is easier to template (with `html/template` )
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* on other UNIXes:
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* wraps either one of `qarma` , `zenity` , `matedialog` ,\
in that order of preference
